Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Once a month blogger

Well incase you can't tell... I'm totally in love with Instagram. It's just so... insta. So if you like seeing pictures of quilts and cute kids head on over to my page there. Of course I'm thepincushion.

So it's been a super wackadoodle fun beginning to the year. I think I've done 15 quilts so far? Yep that 's wackadoodle. But thank goodness they've been really fun quilts to make!

Here are some memory quilts for two little guys from their baby clothes + mom and dad's pajamas. I chose the granny square quilt pattern for one and a rainbow for the other. Seriously. I love how they turned out.

Thanks for the pic, Kate!

After that my very best good friend asked me to make the bedding for her two girls. A perfect change of direction of working with two little boys' quilts. Yin and Yang!

We worked together to get ruffles, stripes, and that light flowy airy feel without being too juvenile. I think they turned out well... let's hope the girlies do too. Never made a ruffle quilt before. I'm not gonna lie. I loved it. Ever since since having my own little girls to cohabit with I am like a 7 year old all over again. Pink! Ruffles! Flowers! It looks like my daughter is my interior designer but nope, I pick out and hang every one of my "whimsical" art pieces.

I digress.

Sometimes this sewing thing (hobby? job? fun little time filler?) can feel like work. Wait, let me rephrase that. Almost never does this sewing thing feel like work. Well maybe when I have to baste a quilt or something, but that's about it. As long as no one asks for batik in their quilt, I'm good.

But then there are times when the sewing thing is off the charts ridiculously fun. Like making bedding for my friends' babes. Or a client orders a wedding quilt and then comes back (after an appropriate amount of time!) for a baby quilt. I am often pinching myself and thanking God I get to use needle and thread to grow relationships with people. It's really the coolest thing out there.

Little Charlie was born a couple weeks ago and she is also getting a quilt chalk full of pink and girlie. I really like working with bright, saturated colors. Hopefully baby Charlie does too! I often stumble into my sewing lair early in the morning with my cuppa Chai and need crazy bright fabric to help pry open the peepers.

A series of quilts you will see a bunch of in the next few months are my stars quilts. A very good friend adopted two precious girls and my gift to them were new quilts. She already had two biological kids so quilts all around! Honestly I hope to get them done before they go to college.

Here is quilt one for the youngest. I used all Sherbet Pips. While assembling the quilt top I starting to question myself how in the world I came up with such a brilliant idea to give a 3 year old a mostly white quilt. Yeah....

When I became a mother I made a bunch of weird rules in my head... no binkies, no TV, and NO commercially licsenced crap on or near my children.
Ahem.

But if it's in the form of a quilt, it doesn't count, right? Gramma got the jammies so that also doesn't count.
And TV is ok if everyone in the house is sick and whiny.
Binkies... I think I actually TRIED to force it in my middle daughters mouth to get her to stop crying. She hated it and opted for 4+ years of finger sucking anyway. Me and my orthodontist are going to be BFFs I'm guessing.

So yeah, my son has a Spot book that he lovingly refers to as "Pots" and even (melt my heart right out of here!) "Potsies". POTSIES!! So when I saw little Potsies in fabric I got it and made it into a quilt in about 38 minutes. I bought two book panels and put some batting in the middle. No books, just quilts. That's how I roll!

I just love it when you take a minute out of your needle and threading and homeschooling and crock potting and nature walking and hubby time to blog. It's so fun to read your words and your thoughts. Love you so and ALL the quilts on here are beautiful. Although nothing is more beautiful than that Nino. YUMMY!